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« 3D Batabllahed 1850. |_ VOL. XUXMii.iS.) Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. jllOOtT'tr ; Id Ad vm N, COPYRIGHT 189^^^" ARTHUR BARRY' I'd try to get bis dander up sometimes. 'Look at that, Peter,' I'd say. 'That's my country's flag: There's no slaves underneath its folds, sweating and toiling, half starved and taxed to death's doors, as there are tinder yours. Hip I hip) hooray 1 Bole Britannia and Ood save the qneen, and to hades with all half breeds 1' He didn't understand all of it, of conrse, bnt he nsed to shake his fist at the Badger and look as nasty as a hatful of snakes. of the opium, was stronger than I thought, and I weaker. Down we went, rolling over and over, while, to make things warmer, the lantern capsized, and, setting fire to the coarse grass, it blazed op all about us. "Also the hag, with a big club in her fist, was dancing around screeching blue murder, bat too frightened to hit, so olosely entangled were we. I still grasped my knife. I could see Peter's also gleam as we turned and writhed. Presently I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and knew 1 was stabbed. Tbat made me real mad, and as we rolled away a bit from tbe fire the hag made a smack at me; bat, missing, oaaght Peter on the point of tbe shoulder, causing him to drop the knife. He stretched out to reoover it, and I got home on him till I felt the wooden haft jar against his ribs. "Also tbe bag was politely escorted down tbe gangway and transshipped. We had those Dotohmen fairly cowed, Lluffed by our aadaoity and tbeir own bad conscience. SNOW EATING MANIA. CAMELS HARBOR HATRED. CLOTHES SPECIALS. FREAKS OF MEMORY. A PECULIAR HABIT THAT DEVELOPS Will Walt Until an Opportnaltjr Ar- Qaeer Pockets and Thtagi Tallava Have to Put la Garatalt, "No special'' rive! For KfTroir. "No, I never beard a word abont the affair afterward. . I staid witb Oaptain Cardigan until was promoted to the Polyphemus corvet, and I dare aay 1 might have stuck to the service only my shoulder was always a bit atiff and got rather worse if anything as time went on. So I left and, through tbe captain's infioenoe, got a light, and then others, and so on here. Now, it's a wild night, and yoo'd better tarn in here till morning. No use trying to get back to town. I'm going to the telephone to talk to the pilot station." IN THE KLONDIKE The Arab who has angered a camel will throw his clothes upon the ground, and tliit infuriated beast, after stamping on them and tearing them asnnder with his teeth, goee on his way, and the driver is thereafter quite safe, as it seems to be an axiom with the camel that no man shall be put in peril of life twice for one offense. QUEER PRANKS FOR WHICH THERE The Appetite, When Once Acquired, Is Extremely Difficult to Control, sal to ladalare It Means a Short Cat to the Grave. With that remark to the assistant who took down the measurements the tailor dismissed his patron and that the unit -would be "tare"* oa a certain day. "What did jon mean by saying 'no ipecial' to yoor clerk?" asked the customer.18 NO ACCOUNTING. •oaie Iaataaeea of the Slnsnlar Effects Prodnced Ipon the MInCf by Steadily a Crystal—For«otte« laeldeati Recalled. Every great discovery in the world's history has brought with it an accompanying affliction, and it remained for the Klondike to develop a peculiar mania that threatens to outrival opium eating. Among the residents of the far north it is known as the "snow habit," and it is said to be incurable. A returned Klondiker tells the strange story. "There are many strange things in the Klondike," said the nahator, "but perhaps the strangest and that about which nothing has been written so far, is the dissipation caused by eating snow. In the north, when the thermometer reaches 80 to 40 degrees below sero, a mouthful of snow is like molten metal. It bringB an inflammation to the palate and tongue and it is impossible to quench the thirst The first advice an old timer offers a newcomer in the region is 'Don't eat snow.' There are men in that country, once hearty, robust miners, now weak, effeminate creatures, whose fall can be traced directly to the time they began munching snow. "The matter has been but little investigated, but the scientists who have examined the subject say that the waters of the north are rich with mineral deposits which are being constantly washed down from the mountains. A certain per cent of this mineral is taken into the air when vapor rises, and the mow becomes impregnated with it. There have been several falls of red snow near Point Barrow, the deposit being of a reddish brown color, due entirely to minerals. Thus it can be seen that a person eating large quantities of the snow takes into his system a corresponding amount of minerals.'' "Twice while I was on watch, as we used to aall the intermittent, sleepy lookout we kept at Mat Aria, the Blitzen's boat came ashore, and I could bear the officer and Peter each time having a long confab together. During the night the old hag always used to have coffee ground and hot water on the fire, so that we oould make our own if we wished for a drink. The queer freaks of memory are a i onstant puzzle to those who study I'sychical phenomena. Who has not beeii driven to the verge of distraction *y the total inability to recall a name *h«n an effort was made to do so and when the occasion for such remembrance was past had the missing name Saab into the mind apparently of its jwn volition t Qreat minflp have wrestled to find an explanation for the pranks that memory plays and have had a np the jystematio atnnderstandingmemory oody of The folput to 200 ts and pro_ men and inswers are here The camel is Btupid, save when angry, and then seems to become almost preternatural in carrying out its vengefal designs. Palgrave relates the following story of a camel's revenge, which serves to illustrate this point: "A lad of 14 had conducted a large camel laden with wood from one village to another at a half hour's distance. As the loitered or turned oat of the way ita conductor struck it repeatedly harder than it seemed to have thoogbt he had a right to do. Bat not finding the occasion favorable for taking immediate quits it 'bode its time.' That time was not long in coming. "Well, that means that you want your clothes made all right and without tiny crank things about th«m Pockets sre the great special* We hare customers who want, besides the regular pockets, {daces in their waistcoats for pencils, eyeglasses sad all sorts of things. Some pencil pockets ere mads to hold only one pencil some for a bunch Eyeglass pockets are ako ordered in keeping with the shape and " - — * 1 A- — - My friend Harding was head keeper of one of the finest lighthouses in the world, and I was free of it at all boors, bat it was of nights that I loved best to join the old man on bis watch and sit on the baloony and gaze out at the great ooean illumined at minute intervals by the flood of white radiance that seemed to poor forth a greeting to the silent ship* as they passed and repassed or oame straight for the harbor mouth. dnd left os, and what a life it wasl Nothing to do after trimming tbe lights of a morning and sweeping booketfols of moths oat of tbe roandboose, except sit'and smoke and look oat across tbe strait to Celebes—just a blue line of high mountains in the distance—sleep, eat, watcb the abips coming and going, or poll faces at tbe monkeys op among the tall trees that waved their heads 70 feet above ours. "At times tbe traffio was pretty thiok; it was always pecoliar. Junks from Swatow, bound for Amboyna and Coram for sandalwood, swallows' nests and bee he de mer; 'oountry wallahs' from Penang and Singapore, going round to Benjarmasain for ooffee and rice; steam tramps from Australian ports loaded up to their gunwales with coal for Manila, and smart little topaail schooners flying any flag that took tbeir fancy and ready to pick op anything that wasn't too hot or too heavy for them, from a bushel of notmegs to a boldfol of ' blackbirds.' Bat, witb the exception of a Dotoh gunboat, tbe filitzen, acting as a sort of sea patrol, who called on os at long intervals, we had no visitors at that Aris point. So I went to bed and dreamed of Mat Aria and the hag, far whom I took Harding when he woke me for morning coffee. "He went limp all in a minute, exactly like one of thoae bladders the children play 'frith if yoo above a pin into it. Well, we'd rolled down a bank into a bit of a swamp, and wben the bag saw what had happened site gave one yell and jumped fairly on top of me and got her stick to work in great style. As yoo may imagine, I was by this time pretty well knooked out, and 1 don't know bow matters would have gone only that a boat's crew of tbe Badger just then oame on the scene and dragged tbe hag off me, swearing, kicking and striking right and left until one of the men gave her a poke with a bayonet, when the suddenly calmed down and started to raise the Malay death wail. "One night shortly after tbe Datcb officer's last visit, coming and rousing Peter to take hia watch, 1 brewed myself a cop before turning in. It tasted WITH A PAIR OF SCIS80RS. style of tiie glasses, and pockets for •_*; —- - d «o giv cigars are ordered for all sises, from the 3ffort- In "• ooorse of a - little half pencil ahape to the great arrlre at some big perfecto. Freak pockets, of wonders of Other pockets. are also in •***_ and nniqw ly make for the watoh aide of the waist- lowin« questions have been ooat, are ordered often for trousers by American university stndei. men who carry idlyer trinkets in them.' feasicwl persona, 151 being Another dam of special customer* 48 brin« women. The ' ve those whoss garments are T?**1 ?"* The Woaderfal Artlatle Poata Per- almost before I'd time to ondress I very bitter, and I didn't finish it, formed br Joanne Koetren. dead to the world. I woke in a fri More than 200. years ago a little girl was born at Amsterdam, Holland, whose name was Joanne Koetren. She was a peculiar child in that she cared nothing whatever for play and sport, bat found her greatest delight in making copies of things about her, imitating in wax every kind of fruit and making on silk, with colored floes, exact copies of paintings, which were thought wonderfuL Harding was a square built, gray haired man, with a strong, determined faoe, all brown and wrinkled by son and storm, and eyes tbat burned like live coals under shaggy white brows. dripping with sweat and shaking few days later the same lad had to reconduct the beast, bat unladen, to his own village. When they were abont half way on the road and at some distance from any habitation, the suddenly stopped,' looked deliberately round in every direction to assure itself that no one was in sight and, finding the road clear of passersby, made » step forward, seized the nnlncky boy's bead in its monstrous month, and, lifting him up in the air, flang fct™ down again on the earth with the upper part of his skull completely torn off. over. Now, in the lightboaae was a bottle of lime jnioe I'd brewed myself. My throat was as dry aa tbe lubricators of a oollier's engines, and the thoogbt of that drink tantalised me till I made shift to crawJ out of my hammock and stagger along the bridge to the little bouse where also was a 'chatty* of cold water. At odd times athwart the oonoen- with a view to. the wearer's health Many men hare am Inner band at ni flannel pot on the waist at their twm•ers as a core for rheuma tism, some driving ooats are made so that ■Tuwts of stoat paper may be slipped between the breast Hi»Cng and the oloth wheo driving against the wind. "On the whole." said the tailor, "a man in my boeineai has the best opportunity to find oat the and queer points about men, not only as to perrons, bat their minds."—New York Tribune questions: Question 1.—When you cannot recall k nam* yon want, does it seem to come *ok spontaneously without being frogjested by any perceived association of ideas? To this 11 per oent answered •No" and 81 per cent "Yes." Question I.—Does such recovery ever some during sleep? To this 17 per rant limwered "No" and 88 percent "Yes." 1. This morning I tried to recall the name of a character I had read of the night before in one of Scott's novels and failed I taught a class, and walking home in the afternoon all the names resotted to me without effort 8. I tried to recall the name of a book. Gave it up Half an hour later, while talking of something else, blurted it out without oonsciotiB volition. Qnsstiau 8.—On seeing a sight or hearing a sound for the first time, have foo ever felt that you had seen (or heard) the same before T Fifty-nine per oent answered "Yea" The action of unconscious memory luring sleep is illustrated by further trated beams that seemed to hit the far horizon would sail ships, glorified momentarily as they passed through, with every spar and sail and rope sharply outlined by the sudden brillianoe, bnt more often they slid along between light and water, ill defined phantasmal blobs of smudge, out of whiob, when the fancy took them to make their numbers, would spout forth many colored fires, all incomprehensible to the untutored •ye as the dim fa brio* they proceeded from. "To my utter astonishment, looking up, I saw that the light was out. Opening the door, I entered and, half choking, felt for the water bottle. It was empty. Striking a match, I aaw that the floor waa soaking wet. Putting op my band to the wicks, they only frizzed and spluttered at oontact with the flame; also the spare lantern that we always kept ready trimmed had diaappeared." And she had cause to, for Peter pegged out before we got him on board. Mine tnrned ont to be nothing much worse than a flesh woand, although I'd lost a lot of blood from it Brit after she had become very accomplished in music, spinning and embroidery, die abandoned all these for a still more extraordinary art—that of cutting. She executed landscapes, marine views, flowers, animals and portraits of people of such striking resemblance that she was for a time quite the wonder of Europe. Bhe used white papers for her cuttings, placing them over a black surface, so that the minute openings made by her scissors formed the "light and shade." "Having thus satisfied his revenge, the brute quietly resumed its pace toward the village, as though nnthing were the matter,' till some men, who had observed the whole, though unfortunately at too great a distance to be able to afford timely help, came up and killed it."—London Telegraph. "As you may guess, the skipper of the Badger was in a pelter when he'd heard my story. Certainly I had no witness, and the bag kept her mouth as close as a rat trap. Bat we got over that. There was a Malay interpreter on board, and be gave the oaptain a bint. So wben the bag beard that she was to be taken baok to Perak, her native place, and there banded over to the tender mercies of the soltan—at that tiue our very good friend—she made a clean breast of everything, including the attempt to poison me with the juice of the klang-klang berries. Four hundred guilders was the price of Peter's eon nivance and promotion to one of the Java lights if the plsn succeeded. "Peter and his old bag of a mother I soon discovered were confirmed opium smokers, and when they went in for a regular spree and began to suffer a recovery they made things hum in Monkey island,' as I called it. Onoe I was fool enough to interfere and stop Peter from choking the life out of her. For thanks, the pair turned on me, bat I managed to dress tbem down, although Peter nearly got his knife into me. And I can tell yon." laughed Harding, pausing in his story and rising to conjure again with the kettle and other adjuncts, "that two to one, aJth precious little room and a breakreck fall if yoa're not oareful, isn't as funny as it might be." But Harding and his assistant signalmen read off ships and numbers as easily apparently as if it was broad daylight, and the telegraph would repeat at intervals; "Large square rigged ship, with painted porta, steering E. by N. Made her number 28,745." Or it might be, "Steamer, black funnel with white band, brig rigged, deep, bound south, showed no numbar." "Stepping outside to the platform I stared around, headachy and very shaky still. - The Light was black as pitch— one of those nights yon often get out there, that feel almost like black velvet and as thick, and there wasn't a star to be seen, as sometimes happens at the change of the monsoons. The jungle, too, wss still as death—there was no sound on laud or on the sea. The whole world seemed fast bound in sleep and darkness. Presently my eye, roving along shots, came to the gleam ol a light some half mile away, about on a level with where ours should have been. FINERTY'S 8ERMON. The czar, Peter the Great, and others of high rank paid her honor. One "»■»» high in office vainly offered her 1,000 florins for three cuttings. The ompross of Germany paid her 4,000 florins for a trophy she had cut, bearing the arms of Emperor Leopold, crowned with eagles and surrounded by a garland of flowers. She also cut the emperor's portrait, which can now be seen in the Royal Art gallery in Vienna. A great many people went to see her, and she kept a book in which prinoes and princesses wrote their names. NOT THE ONLY ONE. It Bwackt PDi«« th« PNMh«( Wk» Dliat D*Uth It Before ax-Congressman John Finerty became famous as the great British lion tail twister he was one at the best reporters in He was on The Tribune, and one day a certain city editor (best known to fame as the man who always wore a straw hat and smoked a corncob pipe) decided that Mr. Finerty should be It was Saturday, and sometime after midnight Mr. Finerty was awrignntl to report the morning sermon of - ob score minister way down on t Side. Finerty was the senior, associates were thunderstruk, expected an explosion, at ' Finerty remained calm ant although a trifle pale. resign," they thought, walked out and made no surprise of every one, he next day as usual and turned stract of the sermon. Every on Monday morning, and „ I talnly an eloquent and careful^ | ed w u Km While coming down the Copper river last spring the narrator came upon a party of miners where one was dying from the effects of eating snow. He had been a hard drinker, but had run short of whisky. His thirst became unendurable and as water was scarce in midwinter he had taken to eating snow. Soon he claimed it relieved his appetite for the liquor, but his companions noticed that his appetite for the snow increased until he was consuming enormous quantities. Gradually his skin, which was a dark bronze, grew light, his rugged stature became bent, and even his harsh voice changed to the effeminate squeak of an old woman. His strength gave way, and his companions tried to break him of the habit. He would lie on his pallet and moan pitifully for a mouthful of snow and when opportunity offered would steal unobserved to the doorway and gulp down huge handfuls. At last, seeing death was inevitable, his companions allowed him the snow, hoping to prolong his life. It proved unavailing, however, and one morning the man was found dead. Spencer* In That LoealHr Wen sa Thick aa Blaekborrtoa. A half yearly meeting of directors who manage the Northampton private asylum had just broken up, and Lord Spencer, a member of that body, desiring to. reach Althorp Park somewhat more quickly than customarily, determined to return home by a route which intersects the grounds of the asylum and which is rarely used save as a summer parade for the unfortunate lunatics. Arrived at the gate which separates the asylum from the outer world. Lord Spencer, much to his annoyance and disgust, found it securely locked. A keeper, however, happening to come in sight just at that moment Lord Spencer lost no time in explaining to him the nature of his wishea This, you will see, was no isolated light atuok forlornly hundreds of miles from anywhere. It was an! establishment over whiob Harding presided— quite a little settlement of government offioes oonnected with the important department of harbors, rivers and trade. His salary was high. So was the efficiency of the service be headed. And he was not averse to a little judioious praise now and again. "This oonfession of the hag's wss s bit of luok for me, and Captsin Cardigan complimented me in presence of the ship's company on the way I'd behaved, having undoubtedly saved the Badger, whose officer of the watoh was steering by the false light when it suddenly disappeared. The oaptain also said that be would represent my conduct to tbe admiralty. And that he kept his word," said Harding as he rose to "go on deck" for a minute, "my presence here proves. If you'll refill the kettle, I'll be baok again in a.very short time." Question 4. —Do yon dream ? Ninetyfour per cant answered "Yee." After she died, which was when she had lived 68 years, her husband, Adrian Block, erected a monument to her memory and had designed upon it the portraits of these titled visitors. Her cuttings were so correct in effect and so tasteful as to give both dignity and value to her work and constitute her aa artist whose exquisite skill with the scissors has never before or since been equaled.—Lewiston Journal ' " Question 5. —G*n you wake at i - jIVT honr d0(ermlned before going to without waking up many timet . Fifty-nine par cent answered * J"1 rhirty-ooe per cent answered ta± "f11™; Question ft.—If yon can, hoT J"failure T Sixty-nine per cent but Finerty failed; 80 per cent often. egiLTowe Question 7.—Do yon come direci reported a» oblivion into consciousness ? Sixty in an ab- p«. cent answered "Yes" and 1 ana read it o«t "Gradually " ■' o*r- Examples: illyseport- L toglTe medicinr hours exactly to my wife d«i«lcut jooad sleeper, but for si] . —**dto up every two hours and reported giring the medicine. before. Mr. 1 I am always awaki The maan before the hour I set the to see Mr. 8. I had" tittle given Having replenished tbe glasses and refilled and lit bis pipe, Harding proceeded : j sleep xsforeT "Yea" "No." It waa a wild night, with a "southerly" blowing great gone, keeping tbe sea flattened into a vast milky white expanse of foam that kept np a long drawn, continuous roar at tbe foot of tbe cliffs in fitting accompaniment to tbe ahrieking blasts that wrestled and tore around tbe great tower as if striving to abake it from its foundations deep down in tbe solid rock. " Well, after this I oould see that tbe two had taken a down upon me, and as 1 on my part was heartily sick of the' whole oontract I told tbe offloer wbo commanded the Blitzen next time she called that I wanted to leave, and that the sooner be found a substitute the better I should be pleased. For answer he called me an English 'scbelm,' whiob means rascal, and told me that I had agreed for two years, whiob was a lie, and that there 1 should stay. Alao that he'd make it bis business to see that I didn't get away. about seldom The man surlily replied that his orders were to the effect that no one should pass through that gate exoept due notice were given to him to the contrary by the authorities, and that, being a married man with a wife and a large family, he failed to understand what special advantage was to be gained by transgressing the rules and thus placing his situation in jeopardy. Observing that the fellow was growing obdurate, Lord Spencer thought it bast to reveal his name and rank, imagining that a knowledge of the same would recall the man to his senses. Nothing of the sort happened, however. from ■ four 0 per "Aye," replied Harding as he reseated himself in reply to a remark of mine. "I was lucky, but you mustn't think thai I came here straightaway. This— the prize of the servioe among the lights —is my sixth. So, you see, to some extant I've worked my way up, helped, of oourse, by the little matter I've been telling yon and together with what in my young days was called a very fair education. Well, the oaptain of the Badger—he's a rear admiral now—was not the man to sit quietly down and let the Dutchman go soot free, bat not a stick of tbe Bliteen wss to be seen throughout the strait of Macassar. Still we kept on searching till at. last tbe skipper of a country wallah told us he'd seen her off Breton, an island round in the Bauda sea. Sure enough, one morning there we found ber at anchor off a native town. Now, lbs was both faster, carried more men, and was more heavily armed than we were, bat Captain Cardigsn had made up his mind that there was to be no international row over tbe matter. It had to be settled as privately as possible and strlotly between tbe two ships. THE LADY THE WINNER. every two D An»l«s Occurrence la aa OSIm BalMlae Elevator la Chleace. That afternoon a man of called on the city editor see the young pan who had hie sermon the morning *~ Finerty was introduced the clerical cut would like Finerty alone for a few momenta in the hallway he ached, "Of ooi yon were not at my church yeeta I am a very weeks I woke never missed "Come along to my room," said Harding at last after a good look around, "and we'll have a pipe and a glass of grog while I tell yon about another lighthouse I ran and another mano'-war that I watched some 25 years ago now." People who ride in "lifts" in this city acquire some qneer experiences at times. The calling of the floors where passengers desire to debark or embark not infrequently produces some amusing situations. It all depends upon the style of the person making the an- There are some spots on the Copper river where the snow, when melted and strained through a cloth, shows perceptible signs of minerals, and often gold is found plentifully intermixed, but of oourse not in paying quantities. Where this comes from is a mystery, but it may be brought from the far north by the heavy winter gales that sweep over this part of the country. It has been said that if the snow could be melted away it would leave deposits of millions of dollars in gold dust on the ground. "Seeing that eaoape, for that's what it really oame to, by water waa not to be thought of, exoept fay swimming, and the sharks pretty well put that out of tbe question, I determined to see what the land side was like. A mnddy banked river emptied itself just below the lighthouse, and this one day I started to follow np. But 1 didn't follow long. I don't believe I got a mile before 1 was mother naked and nearly bitten and stung to death. Every bnsh and shrub, nay, tbe very flowers, seemed to carry a thorn. And, what with fire ants, mosquitoes, leeches, oentipeda, stinging flies, and, worae than all, a olamed caterpillar that drops on to yon off the leave* and aticks hairs into yon that break off in your flesh and fester, I oan assure yon it was the roughest pionio I ever had. Why, I almost thought I oould bear tbe alligators chuckling as 1 made home again. Certainly Peter laughed for the first time since we'd been mates on Monkey island when he aaw tbe plight 1 waa in. five minute* Alarm. —-id had sleep for ten day* C*i went to bed at 9, asking to be sailed ait midnight I fell asleep at ' 1 ' ' ' clock I had Descending into bis private snuggery beside a bright fire, I took one of the big armchairs while Harding operated with hot water, case bottle, lemons and sugar and after fixing matters to bis satisfaction filled his pipe and said; nouncement. Of course conductors are mute participants in the game. Here is one happening of yesterday which is certainly out of the usual run. J onoe. 1 raw and dressed as thC (tuck IS, and ooold not believr , . not been called. thank yoa a strange pbanomenon has inorealo- light in the course of the inquiry the mystery of memory. It has ie*™otl ™ disoorered that by gadnc steadily laloon on eryatal consciousness is partly lost to the void thru produced those hare practloed crystal gazing find center unbidden forgotten | "No," replied Finerty. "Well. 1 simply stopped tc tar the sermon. It was for quent than the one I preached. Finerty had composed the r a neighboring cellar beer Saturday night.—Lippincott's dM morning t" "Peter laughed for the fi.rH time tince we'd been mate*." only much farther inland—a big light I saw it was, as my eyes got tbe sleep out of tbem—and burning steadily. The stolid features of the keeper simply relaxed into a broad grin, and as he turned to depart he gently explained that Lord Spencers in that particular locality were as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn time. Explanations and expostulations were useless, the discomfited earl being forced to return the way he had come.—Wit and Wisdom. Half a dosen passengers entered an elevator in a big down town office building. Doctors office there almost to the exclusion of other professions. One boy with a package asked to be deposited at the second floor. A woman stood mute while a medical man thought he would leave at the fifth. Theoonductor turned an inquiring head and the remaining passengers with one voice chiming in full chorus shouted: come to into been it a In- "Aye, ii most be about five and twenty years now since tbe day I sat on the steps of tbe sailors' borne iu Singapore stone broke. I'd been first mate of a •hip called tbe Star of Africa, that tbe ■kipper managed to ran slap on to a rook in tbe strait of Sunda. It wasn't my fault, nor did I low my ticket, like the oaptain. All tbe same, I fonnd it precious bard to get another ship. "Owners as well as masters have fads and prejudices in this respect—not perhaps as regards a first t ime. Bnt this happened to be my second wreck running. So my luck, you seti, was doad oat. Actually, only for baas Das I might have starred. Bananas and water fill up and satisfy right enough, ouly it takes you ail your time to keep tbe supply going. Presently, as I sat there, digesting my second or third breakfast, out oame the master intendant and said be: 'Harding, if yon stay here till the moon tarns bine, you'll never get it ship. But • billet's turned up that perhaps is better than nothing. The Dutc.li,' be went PPi 'have built a lighthouse somewhere down yonder on tbe Borneau coast and • second keeper is wages 80 guilders a month and rations. It's the merest fluke that I happened to hear of it Will yon take it?' The narrator had a close call himself from falling a victim to the snow habit "It was in the winter of 1896-7," he ■aid, "and I was new to the country. An old miner near Dawson had warned me against eating snow, bat I, with my partner, had gone back into the hills on a prospecting tour and had got canght in a blizzard We were shy of provisions and on oar way np lost the package containing oar cooking utensils. This we remedied by broiling oar oooked foods, bat we had nothing in which to melt the snow. It is claimed that melted snow is harmless, as the metallic deposits it contains sink to the bottom of tiie receptacle. "As I stared, ponied beyond expression, I all at onoe beard tbe sound of muffled snorting and churning faint in the distance—a noise as if a shoal of grampos were coming down the strait. who to rMtomvkr. there e*. „ ud at Um mm tim u- ud lost msmociss. To give a fev /oe of fog in photograph/ tfanoea: ▲ lady in crystal gating to tba fact that the black- bit of dark wall oovered with . " worn off the lens flowers. She was conscious she hen is a reflection which hare seen it somewhere, bat had i loss of brliiiaoay in Us recollection where. She walked over Constant nse and endlass ground she had just traversed the lens in tine wear the found the wall, which she had and this shoold be attend- annotloel all metal parts kepi wall ®»took cut her bankbook Where lenses are mounted in d*7- Shortly afterward she wet still more aare is neeessary at the crystal and saw nothing but as, wherever in soOh number oeta. She thought it wse . wears off, white light bMk number, bat taking up the fellow light is reflected into book, found to her surprise it was number of the aooount diaphragms of the iris At another time she destroyed t greatly at fault in this re- tar without noting the address, reason of its ooostruotkn the oould only remember the town, in this diaphragm are in' |Mta| at the crystal some timi while being set, and "881 Jefferson avenue." She polished and reflect! v* far dresssd the letter there, adding C some photographers avoid town, and found it was right iiapbragms in their len—% A hdy sat in a room to write w -«r their convenience. A »ha had sat eight years before, She of the apparata b«* feetmoving restlessly under the safety in this matter. Stops ble then remembered that ~ pattern beoome in time before she always had a ' «han bare metal, especially was this her feet were seeking. )f the aperture. Psychical research brings tr many cases of similar strange ' cieriM) JtkM. memory. It ia easy to find4 -• - —a - a. _» that . incidents insaw a white must no - the and passed One aerioob raapeoted source ia often doe to C 1 ing baa aligbtlj moon t and '' resulte in negative. cleaning of blacking off, ed to and blaoked. aluninion in tbia respect, oaaea tbe blackinf instead of tbe lens. "Listening and staring, there suddenly roae to mind fragments of tbe first talk I'd beard between Peter and tbe Dutchman about lights and bearing*: Then somehow oame a connection between that and tbe tailblock and tbe ooii of ratline stuff. Then, I don't know how it happened, bnt in a second —perhaps you're experienodH something of the kind—my brain seemed cleared of oobweba, as if a broom inside had •wept across it sharply, and the wbole plan lay before me plain as mod in a wineglass. The puff puff and wheezy panting was sounding nearer, and, looking steadily and bard into tbe distanoe, I could see a long way np tbe strait a shower of sparks like a swarm of fireflies, bnt which I knew marked the whereabouts of the Badger, horning Nagasaki ooal. Too Mneh of It. A high army officer whose fad was ventilation was one day tnuMwg an inspection of a frontier poet which waa mnch in need of repair. In aome places the roof showed the bine sky overhead and the walls were ornamented with gape. "Seven up," murmured a gentle voice u the car reached the indicated floor. "Tenth." "So, with the men at their quarters, guns ran oat and the old Badger stripped for flgbt, we ranged ap to the Dutchman in great style, with the bag in full view on the quarter deck, and ordered—aye, ordered—the Blitzeu'a captain to oome on board, and whether it; waa the aight of the hag or that they w ere unprepared I don't know, but, by gad. eir, be came, he and hia first lieutenant, and tbey were reoeived at the gingway as if they'd been prinoesof the blood. Two men seeking the tenth floor glanoed at each other with grins of appreciation as a stenographer, and a pretty one, by the way, entered the car. She seemed unconscious of having created more than paasing interest, but the conductor was alive to the situation. The brigadier general was escorted through the bailding by the colonel in charge, a sergeant going on before, as is the custom, to warn the men to stand at attention in honor of the general. another gazing the some bankthe"A day or ao after this the gonboat sent ber gig ashore again, and from tbe hammock I bad slang in my portion of tbe big but, 1 could hear much laughter among the Dutchmen as Peter detailed my adrenture. I heard also allosiona to some other rerdamde Englander and a long talk about tbe light and bearings, tbe gist of which for want of a more intimate knowledge of the language escaped me. Next morning I saw Peter marching off along tbe narrow strip of bank that separated bash from sea with a tailblock over bis shoulder, and, though wondering mightily what be could be up to, I wasn't going to show my curiosity. A tailblock, by tbe way, I ought to tell you, is the oommon block that yon reere a rope through, only to one end of it is attached a long tail at plaited stuff, nsnally, by whioh it can be made fast to a spar or bolt, alow or aloft Very little gare me food for thought in those days, and I pnaxled over this till Peter came back, and, rummaging among the stores, walked off onoe more with a coil of new ratline line and in tbe same direction. "We decided to try it 'raw,' and we did. Whether it was the food or the now I don't know, bat daring the week we waited for a chance to get out we had an ever increasing thirst, until, when we were finally able to strike the trail, we were consuming snow at a frightful rate- When we reached oar companions, we attempted to assuage our thirst with water, but it did no good. We had acquired a taste for the frosen water, and it seemed to have invigorating qualities. At night we could oot sleep unless we took our snow. As they proceeded the general asked: "And how is the ventilation, colonel?""The lady wins," he muttered to himself as he gave the lever a yank and the car shot upward again.—Chicago Chronicle. Sometlmtt pattern are apeot By Imtm or TDDetD onoatant frictioj thai beoome which xmaou hiTlsg irlf Before the colonel could reply the old sergeant, with a familiarity born at long service, said: She After she adtheOme on the Rector. "Than our skipper and the fink lieutunant and the Dutchman all went be- The little daughter of a local clergyman has reached the age where big words are apt to floor her and where she la very sensitive to the remarks at aa older brother. "Sure, general, and the ventilation ia bad, sorr, verra bad, sorr. The place is all full of holes, sorr."—Detroit Free Press. "She was approaching obliquely, orer from tbe Celebes aide, heading about west-southwest to piok up Mat Aria light; then, scoording to tbe sailing directions, she wonld straighten np west by south, keeping the light four points on ber starboard bow to clear tbe reef. Now, with the light in its present position, she would, if unsuspicious—and it was the merest chance that anybody on board observed tbe change—crash right on to tbe outermost edge of tbe reef and go down in deep water, as others had done before ber. It was a trap oooceived with perfectly diabolioal cunning and ingenuity, the site of the false light haring evidently been determined most carefully and aoientifloally, not too far to excite tbe lookout's distrust and yet near enough by half a point t6 prove effectual. Puff, puff, ohnrn, ohnrn, pant, pant Another 90 minutes, and it would be all up with H. M. S. Badger. But knowing exactly what to do—holding two honors and the ace, so to speak —I was as cool as a cnoamber, and, except for that trembling abont the legs, my own man again. That I had been drugged or poisoned by an insufficient dose I more than suspected. Just then, however, I didn't bother my head about that I wanted to renew the light on Mat Aris. Round the caboose in which tbe lantern used tcr hang, as I're told yon, for all the world like a leg of mutton in a meat safe, ran lookera filled with tins of kerosene, waste, rope, oakam and suoh matters. Knocking tbe beads of a ooaple of the tins in, Iponred the oil orer all liberally, saturating everything. After this, a match was all that was needed, and before I was half way slong tbe bridge the flames were six feet high. Just looking in her den to see that the hag wasn't there, I went down the ladders like a lamplighter and ran along tbe bank toward where I knew the false beacon mnst be twang bigh aloft in some tree. low. What passed there 1 don't know. Eat TOASftotlv Uipv name nn attain—the here felt ta- Not long ago she came running to her father. " 'Mandy," said Farmer Corntoeael, who had been reading the back jages of a magazine, "ef a cannon ball goin at the rate of 60 miles an hour was shot from the back of a train goin 60 miles an hour, where would the cannon ball light?" Hex Opinion. ouehl examination will inaore of the ordinary little bettor at tbe edge? " 'Wonld s duck swim?' D "We were fast approaching the degenerate stage when I reached a realizing sense of our condition and undertook to break off. I began by degrees and worked down, but up to the very moment I left the country the sight of the snow always raised in me an inordinate craving. It cost me many sleepless nights and weary days to restrain myself. Had I given way to the habit I would, like many another poor fellow, have lost all ambition and filled an unknown grave in that frozen wilderness.'' —Cleveland Plain Dealer. eight footstool " 'All right, theD; come along to Van Veldt & Co.*s office, they'll take yon on my recommendation.' The Dutch aganta did so without question. More, they paid me a month's wages in advance. and sent me in one of their fteatnera round to Batavia, vrbere I was to gat fresh orders. Arrived there, 1 Was kept waiting a moutL. But aa I had good qnarters and plenty to eat and drink I didn't mind a bit 8])ending my 'dead horse' in this way. One day, bowerer, I was told to get my belonging! on board a little foira and aft schooner which bad been loading stores fer tbe newly built lighthouse. "We were ten days on the passage, and when we brought np at our destination and I aaw what I'd come to I'd hare taken ten days on bananas and water to get away again. "From a thickly wooded point a reef ran nearly three-quarters of a mile out into the Macassar strait. At the extreme end of Mat Aris—as the point waaaalled—stood tbe lighthouse.* You'd have laughed! Imagine a sort of shed, ahaped like one of those oval topped meat safes, bnilt on a platform resting on piles 40 feet high. That waa all. From the ahed there ran it corduroy bridge with a hand rail, some BO feet baok shoreward, to another and a larger platform, where in * large hut we were o live. The only way to gef down to vwas by ladders! At low roil oonld see wer$ mud and Mgators, which used to come ver close to for salt water Everywhere, almoiit down to atood great trees 150; feet high, iose together, elbowing each speak, and, aa if that wasn't creepers, ferns aiiTT* under«11 descriptions filled np evohinb between them. On "Papa, papa, George called me names." light Ticks of "Why, what did Georgia say?*' "Oh," said the little girl, with a strong expression of disgust, "he said I practiced what I preached I I don't, do I?" |i8y*■* "Do you have matins In you church?" "No, we prater linoleum." Another olerk gave oat in ah arch, "Let aa dog to the praise and glory at God a hymn of my own oompoanre." A lady aaked the dean to read at her badaide "that beautiful leaaon than was summat about greavea in it" The dean read her I Samuel, rrlL "She liatened with arma outstretched and made no oomment untii I oama to the Terse, 'He had greavea at braaanpoo hia legs.' At thia aha raised bar hands in ecstasy and said, 'Ah, them grearea, them beautiful grea?eal' "Phaaea of My Life," fay Dean Pigoo. . __ _ instances hat ww to deepen the mystery. It is lot ao easy to {fire an explanation. The slererest men who have attempted to do ao hare had to admit defeat—Wash- Washington Post "I dunno exactly where 'twould light," she answered, "but I kin prophesy that it 'ud do a lot o' damage. It couldn't hit nowheres without hurtin a lot o' people that was standin around without anything better to do than ipeckle-ate on jes' sech doin's."—Washington Star. "Well, my child. I"— "But I don't, do I, papa? I don't any more than you do, do I?" And then the rector choked up.. But he took a half hour from his sermon and explained the meaning of the obnoxious expression to the best of his ability.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mo mm can travel in Belgium with- "He did not appear at dinner, and, aa 1 finished my mean of rice, salt fish and pickled mangoes, I a&d to the has, 'What haa became of Peter?' 'He'a gone to aet a trap for an orang ontang whoae traoka be aaw at the foot of the laddera yesterday,' ahe replied, grinning and leering. 'And,'added she sarcastioaily, 'if yon don't believe me go and look, only leave your olotbea behind, moat miabegotten of English fools.' out being struck by the extraordinary activity mm! prominence of the women. Over the doers at ahops of all descriptions the name of the owner or owners ia fcequwtly followed by "Scours" or "Veuve/' Yon find them proprietors of hotels and restaurants. They are often enstodiana at the ohnrohes. They are employed to tow the boats along the oanal banks. They oat up the meat ia the batchers' shops, and they are even lo be noticed shoeing horses at the forge. Javenlle Diplomacy. Dynamite explodes so rapidly that its force is exerted in the direction from which the greatest pressure comes. That is, if the dynamite be placed on the ground the explosive force is down; if it be hung against a wall its force attacks the wall; if it be hung under an object its force is upward. Dynamite. Mother—I gave each of you boys an orange. Charlie, you said you wouldn't eat yours until after dinner. And you, Jack, said the same. Have yon deceived me? CclaeldHM, "Somehow I'm awfully stupid to- Bight," remarked young Bo ram languidly the other evening. "Indeed you are," retorted Miaa Catting, somewhat impulsively. "Do you really mean that ?" asked the young man in surprise. "I merely indorsed your remarks. Didn't you just now assert that you were stupid?" she queried. "Yes," he responded, "but I only said so without thinking." "And up to the you spoke of it," she replied, "I only thought so without saying it"—Pearson's Weekly. Charlie—No, mother; we didn't eat our own oranges. I ate Jack's and he ate mine.—Sydney Town and Country Journal. The Ann river, in -Transcaucasia, haa shifted to Its ancient bed and now flows directly into the Caspian aea instead of into%he Kara at a point 60 miles from the latter'* month. "Peter came home that evening, and in the interest created by a new visitor in thoae waters and whoae acquaintance I at onoe sought aome means of making the incident of the tailblook was completely forgotten. lie fore you could tay 'Jack Robinson' #D«f Ui+h+d 4t thrrvunK " The curious fact that corn, potatoes and other plants thrive better when plaoed in rcws running north and south has been proved by Dr. Wollnyof Munich. This reduces the shading by each other to a minimum, more uniform and regular light, heat and moisture resulting.Inimical Plants. Datchman looking very sour. Then our gig was piped away, and the whole party got into her. I managed to slip in, too, end off we went to a little lump of an island 'pigeon shooting,' as I heard the first luff wbisper to the doctor. Two well known English plants, the bhistle and the rape, are so inimical thai if a field is infested with thistles, which come up year after year and ruin the crops, all you have to do is to sow it with rape. The thistles will be absolutely annihilated ** Rrv NAr'o£^g| . ■Mrltni- of thteiobafor f rheumatism! ■ HEUSAXAIAeadsfanflarOompUhita, I I. , t Ml IH«iI naitwr the stringent M , M^EIMUMEIlULLm^l nomlng, ANCHOR "v9 « _ [PAIN EXPELLERl ■"* ■ WorMrenowned! Remarktblysnccenfol! ■ ■Only granlne with Trade Mark " Anchor,"! A4. Biefctw *•€•., Sl» Pearl St., Hew Torfc. I I II MHEST AWARDS. ■ 13 Branch House Own Glassworks, ■ ■ HMMa lulu llMCfllWC»lDT M ■oo, Duu a pick, w a. c. BUCK, 10 I*rtk UU StnM, (.EMail, ibrttUiM. r*. tnVatM. WPtmSjIWI* I "ANCHOR" • TO MAC HAL be* for I | CwnpMml ACTIY* 80LXCXT0B8 WANTED EVEKY*» whore for "The Story of the Philippines," by Marat Balstead. commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department. The book wm written in army camps at San Frandsoo, on the Pacific with Gen. Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolulu. In Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tno Insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on tho deck of the Oiympta with Dewey, and in tho roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brimful of original pictures an en by goTornn.eat photographers on the 'rot. Lane book. Ijov prioes. Bis profits. Freight W»DCmVtMvZManac* BttUdSg, Chicago. A proposal has been mad French chemist to obtain easily lable Iron tonios from . ing the plaati judiciously fertilisers. "Dutch soundings, it appeared, had been found ao unreliable aa to bring a few good Britiah veaaela to grief, and that government, obaracteriatioally enough, bad diapatched a veaael to correct them without giving the Dutch notice or aaying by yonr leave or anything else. "Well, the two skippers and their lieutenants put their hands in their pccketa and strolled away into the bosh. Presently our second lnff and the doctor, eaob carrying a hand bag, strolled alter tbem. Nobody else left the boat. In about ten minutes we heard a couple of phots, then two more. 'Sport's goodI' said one of the middies. But the master, who was in charge of the boat, never winked. The Mlniater's Mistake. I once asked a district nurse, says a writer in The Cornhill Magazine, how the various sick cases had been going on during my absence from the parish. At once the look which I knew so well crossed her face, but her natural professional pride strove for the mastery with the due unctuousness which she considered necessary for the occasion. At last she evolved the following strange miiture, "Middling well, sir; some of 'em's gone straight to glory, but I am glad to say others are nicely on the men&." Some 'Went to Glory. Th« Little Dinner Pal la morning gray, along the rtnti, 1 bar the trump at many feet And hear the frtosdly hail, "Good morning, Johnl" "Good This story is told of a prominent preacher: On a hot Sabbath as he was preaching he took from his pocket what he thought was his handkerchief, shook it out and wiped his face, intently talking all the time. To his surprise a broad smile was on every face in his audience, when he discovered what be had put in his pocket for a handkerchief that morning was a pair of his little child's drawers, the legs of which were quite visible as he wiped the perspiration from his face.—Homiletic Review. "There is positively the dumbest man I ever saw. Why, thst fellow doesn't know anything." Where Oar Laigiute ItuklM. (em flrni water all dosena of al down a t' NJbiag. the mi, rati, irawU ol *y rmxat\ hia im "And, although we, or rather I, waa unaware of it, H. M. S. Badger had for aome time been thua engaged at the upper portion of tbfc a trait. Now ahe appeared off Mat Aria bnay, in sporting parlance, wiping the Blitsen's eye, very muoh to the diagust of the latter'a offl cera, whoae apecialty, if th«y possessed (me, waa supposed to be anrveying. Bill)" Am on they trudge to atop or mill. With little dinner palL "And yet be is chief assistant in his wife's intelligence office."—Chicago News. With little dinner ptilt they go Through mod and rain, through A Mother's Reeenfesie. ■mr, Wearing in manly way- Wearing aa king wears kingly erow 11m toiler'* garb of bias or brown. For very kings are they "After awhile the party came strolling back again. But Von Helns, the Ditch captain, walked lame and had bis arm in a sling. And there was blood on the doctor's hands as he wssbed them in the sea; also as we pulled on board again I noticed from where I sat that our skipper bad a nest round hole through bis oooked hat, and that the gold Isoe on his right shoulder epaulet was badly damaged. As they were getting abotu-d their own boat I looked at the Dutch lieutenant—he was the same fellow wbo'd called me an English rascal at Mat Aris—and is the best of his lingo that I could manage, 'At least that's one Dntch lascal who'll think twioe before he sets traps for a British man-o'-war.' Oh, to have my little children back again Bear the bitter toll and ahed the man j tears For the smile* they brought like sonahlne after rain! Would 1 suffer all the pain of all the year*, "Tbe Badger mi a paddle wheeled, brig rigged old tub, rare enough. Bat she was British, and aa I * tared and stared through tbe glaaaea at the white ensign and tbe good red croas flying from her peak I wag tempted often to swim off to her as she puffed and churned away, fussing around after ber boats like an old hen after her obicks. "Over loga and atsmpa I atumbled, looking back now and again at the big, tall glare till, rounding a point, the dense foreat ahut it from aight. Getting along aomehow, I atopped at last and liatened. But 1 oould hear nothing of the Badger. Inland, however, high overhead hung the light, falling out my sheath knife, I made for It, hell for leather, through bush and brier. Aa I guessed, it was buug to a tree, and feeling all around, I soon found the rope belayed to a root, and before you oould say 'Jaok Robinson' I'd slashed it through and was watching the lantern toming down by tbe run, when a fellow jumped out of tbe dark and muzzled me round the throat. ' Hello, Peter I* I said as I returned the oompliment. 'You aee, the oofiee wasn't strong enough.' 1 hadn't tin* tony mooh, bein* w} hoar, for tbe brute, asite impenetrable face of woodland the efforta of the workmen and builders bad merely left a slight scriitoh—even by this time rapidly greening over. Nature heal* ber scars in that country almost as soon as rege*?ed. The light itself wan merely a big lantern carrying eight wicks, kerosene fed, and bnng to tbe roof of tbe meat safe. That it bad been badly wanted, primitive aa it was, tbe remains of several vessels emphatically witneosed. "My boss was there already, a cross bred, anrly lflbking customer—father Dotefa, mother Malay. She kept bonse for U—a skinny old bag, witb a nose like an eegle'a and a bigger mustache than 1 could boast of in those days. Who, brave of soul, with cheat hil ▲re faithful In the lowest plaee Nothing Special. Library Assistant (to visitor who is wandering about in a puzzled manner) —Can I help you t Are you looking for anything special f Starting Him Right. 4 Would I carry little burdens up to bed. After all the weary day to climb the stairs. Bending over, hear the griefs and halting prayers, Just to see each darling's sweetly resting head! That duty nlla them to; Who for the home, the weana, the Grow gray with oar* and stern ' Keeping their heartbeata true. -Mrs. P. A. Croiler "Ah!" sighed the sentimental youth. "Would that I might install a sentiment in your loyal heart"— Visitor (absently)—Not thank yon. I was only looking for my wife. —Library Journal. "Sir," interrupted the practical maid "I'd have you understand that my heart is no installment concern."— Chief go News. Would 1 see uiy dally table, riohly stored With the fruits of toil and oft recurring oost. All to vanish like the flowers before the troet For the sight of their dear faces roaad the board I OH A««. Am u« mm that grow lovaly M old. . . And age throw* • halo around th*m. Am the traea pat upon thwu tbalr robaa of (oM Whan tell with lta glory haa crowned them. —George Blrdseye In Boaton Traveler. "Bntwben I looked at the blaok, three tided flua sticking up at high water right alongaide our pilea I felt my toes tingle, and thought better of it, touting that some daj she'd send a boat to give us a call, when I determined that go I would if all the Dutch in the Eaat Indies were to try to atop me. "That Peter guesaed my thoughts and notions I eonld aaa from tha mean, yal- The Bee* of Would I bear perplexing doubts and a inlaws tears Lest I might not guide their wayward steps aright (These the hardest hoars to win of all the fight) For the sweetest of my hopes for future years I "And yoq say you gave me no anlouragementt""That is what I said." ' 'No encouragement t Why even your father thought it all settled." • 'Eid our friend retire from politics ?'* Distinctions. "Well," answered the practical worker, "it wasn't what you'd call a retire.' It was a knockout"—Washing- Washington Star. Saab Ufa of man la bat a paf* b God's |mt diary, each age A separate volume and each raoa A chapter. For a little apace V* write, and. childlike, cry oar power*, Sor deem hla hand la (aiding ours. -Pw* Wheeler to Nrw York fw, "His hand went to his sword like s flash, but our second luff, who understood, tapped bim on the shoulder and pointed to the boat, tad with a scowl : ha got la. "My father T What proof have you of four extraordinary statement T" The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, wind I—Ha*, What is home without the children there to bless? All are scattered, some a continent apart; Vacant beds and lonely table—oh, my heart "Proof? The best of proof. He borjowa Bona; trow aw "—Cleveland f!ai» Deatar. throbs wlth«aln that aaver knows i eft sul T7»tekft«tafc&]*2«HltWUlta»8t

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« 3D Batabllahed 1850. |_ VOL. XUXMii.iS.) Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Vallev PITTSTON LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. jllOOtT'tr ; Id Ad vm N, COPYRIGHT 189^^^" ARTHUR BARRY' I'd try to get bis dander up sometimes. 'Look at that, Peter,' I'd say. 'That's my country's flag: There's no slaves underneath its folds, sweating and toiling, half starved and taxed to death's doors, as there are tinder yours. Hip I hip) hooray 1 Bole Britannia and Ood save the qneen, and to hades with all half breeds 1' He didn't understand all of it, of conrse, bnt he nsed to shake his fist at the Badger and look as nasty as a hatful of snakes. of the opium, was stronger than I thought, and I weaker. Down we went, rolling over and over, while, to make things warmer, the lantern capsized, and, setting fire to the coarse grass, it blazed op all about us. "Also the hag, with a big club in her fist, was dancing around screeching blue murder, bat too frightened to hit, so olosely entangled were we. I still grasped my knife. I could see Peter's also gleam as we turned and writhed. Presently I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder and knew 1 was stabbed. Tbat made me real mad, and as we rolled away a bit from tbe fire the hag made a smack at me; bat, missing, oaaght Peter on the point of tbe shoulder, causing him to drop the knife. He stretched out to reoover it, and I got home on him till I felt the wooden haft jar against his ribs. "Also tbe bag was politely escorted down tbe gangway and transshipped. We had those Dotohmen fairly cowed, Lluffed by our aadaoity and tbeir own bad conscience. SNOW EATING MANIA. CAMELS HARBOR HATRED. CLOTHES SPECIALS. FREAKS OF MEMORY. A PECULIAR HABIT THAT DEVELOPS Will Walt Until an Opportnaltjr Ar- Qaeer Pockets and Thtagi Tallava Have to Put la Garatalt, "No special'' rive! For KfTroir. "No, I never beard a word abont the affair afterward. . I staid witb Oaptain Cardigan until was promoted to the Polyphemus corvet, and I dare aay 1 might have stuck to the service only my shoulder was always a bit atiff and got rather worse if anything as time went on. So I left and, through tbe captain's infioenoe, got a light, and then others, and so on here. Now, it's a wild night, and yoo'd better tarn in here till morning. No use trying to get back to town. I'm going to the telephone to talk to the pilot station." IN THE KLONDIKE The Arab who has angered a camel will throw his clothes upon the ground, and tliit infuriated beast, after stamping on them and tearing them asnnder with his teeth, goee on his way, and the driver is thereafter quite safe, as it seems to be an axiom with the camel that no man shall be put in peril of life twice for one offense. QUEER PRANKS FOR WHICH THERE The Appetite, When Once Acquired, Is Extremely Difficult to Control, sal to ladalare It Means a Short Cat to the Grave. With that remark to the assistant who took down the measurements the tailor dismissed his patron and that the unit -would be "tare"* oa a certain day. "What did jon mean by saying 'no ipecial' to yoor clerk?" asked the customer.18 NO ACCOUNTING. •oaie Iaataaeea of the Slnsnlar Effects Prodnced Ipon the MInCf by Steadily a Crystal—For«otte« laeldeati Recalled. Every great discovery in the world's history has brought with it an accompanying affliction, and it remained for the Klondike to develop a peculiar mania that threatens to outrival opium eating. Among the residents of the far north it is known as the "snow habit," and it is said to be incurable. A returned Klondiker tells the strange story. "There are many strange things in the Klondike," said the nahator, "but perhaps the strangest and that about which nothing has been written so far, is the dissipation caused by eating snow. In the north, when the thermometer reaches 80 to 40 degrees below sero, a mouthful of snow is like molten metal. It bringB an inflammation to the palate and tongue and it is impossible to quench the thirst The first advice an old timer offers a newcomer in the region is 'Don't eat snow.' There are men in that country, once hearty, robust miners, now weak, effeminate creatures, whose fall can be traced directly to the time they began munching snow. "The matter has been but little investigated, but the scientists who have examined the subject say that the waters of the north are rich with mineral deposits which are being constantly washed down from the mountains. A certain per cent of this mineral is taken into the air when vapor rises, and the mow becomes impregnated with it. There have been several falls of red snow near Point Barrow, the deposit being of a reddish brown color, due entirely to minerals. Thus it can be seen that a person eating large quantities of the snow takes into his system a corresponding amount of minerals.'' "Twice while I was on watch, as we used to aall the intermittent, sleepy lookout we kept at Mat Aria, the Blitzen's boat came ashore, and I could bear the officer and Peter each time having a long confab together. During the night the old hag always used to have coffee ground and hot water on the fire, so that we oould make our own if we wished for a drink. The queer freaks of memory are a i onstant puzzle to those who study I'sychical phenomena. Who has not beeii driven to the verge of distraction *y the total inability to recall a name *h«n an effort was made to do so and when the occasion for such remembrance was past had the missing name Saab into the mind apparently of its jwn volition t Qreat minflp have wrestled to find an explanation for the pranks that memory plays and have had a np the jystematio atnnderstandingmemory oody of The folput to 200 ts and pro_ men and inswers are here The camel is Btupid, save when angry, and then seems to become almost preternatural in carrying out its vengefal designs. Palgrave relates the following story of a camel's revenge, which serves to illustrate this point: "A lad of 14 had conducted a large camel laden with wood from one village to another at a half hour's distance. As the loitered or turned oat of the way ita conductor struck it repeatedly harder than it seemed to have thoogbt he had a right to do. Bat not finding the occasion favorable for taking immediate quits it 'bode its time.' That time was not long in coming. "Well, that means that you want your clothes made all right and without tiny crank things about th«m Pockets sre the great special* We hare customers who want, besides the regular pockets, {daces in their waistcoats for pencils, eyeglasses sad all sorts of things. Some pencil pockets ere mads to hold only one pencil some for a bunch Eyeglass pockets are ako ordered in keeping with the shape and " - — * 1 A- — - My friend Harding was head keeper of one of the finest lighthouses in the world, and I was free of it at all boors, bat it was of nights that I loved best to join the old man on bis watch and sit on the baloony and gaze out at the great ooean illumined at minute intervals by the flood of white radiance that seemed to poor forth a greeting to the silent ship* as they passed and repassed or oame straight for the harbor mouth. dnd left os, and what a life it wasl Nothing to do after trimming tbe lights of a morning and sweeping booketfols of moths oat of tbe roandboose, except sit'and smoke and look oat across tbe strait to Celebes—just a blue line of high mountains in the distance—sleep, eat, watcb the abips coming and going, or poll faces at tbe monkeys op among the tall trees that waved their heads 70 feet above ours. "At times tbe traffio was pretty thiok; it was always pecoliar. Junks from Swatow, bound for Amboyna and Coram for sandalwood, swallows' nests and bee he de mer; 'oountry wallahs' from Penang and Singapore, going round to Benjarmasain for ooffee and rice; steam tramps from Australian ports loaded up to their gunwales with coal for Manila, and smart little topaail schooners flying any flag that took tbeir fancy and ready to pick op anything that wasn't too hot or too heavy for them, from a bushel of notmegs to a boldfol of ' blackbirds.' Bat, witb the exception of a Dotoh gunboat, tbe filitzen, acting as a sort of sea patrol, who called on os at long intervals, we had no visitors at that Aris point. So I went to bed and dreamed of Mat Aria and the hag, far whom I took Harding when he woke me for morning coffee. "He went limp all in a minute, exactly like one of thoae bladders the children play 'frith if yoo above a pin into it. Well, we'd rolled down a bank into a bit of a swamp, and wben the bag saw what had happened site gave one yell and jumped fairly on top of me and got her stick to work in great style. As yoo may imagine, I was by this time pretty well knooked out, and 1 don't know bow matters would have gone only that a boat's crew of tbe Badger just then oame on the scene and dragged tbe hag off me, swearing, kicking and striking right and left until one of the men gave her a poke with a bayonet, when the suddenly calmed down and started to raise the Malay death wail. "One night shortly after tbe Datcb officer's last visit, coming and rousing Peter to take hia watch, 1 brewed myself a cop before turning in. It tasted WITH A PAIR OF SCIS80RS. style of tiie glasses, and pockets for •_*; —- - d «o giv cigars are ordered for all sises, from the 3ffort- In "• ooorse of a - little half pencil ahape to the great arrlre at some big perfecto. Freak pockets, of wonders of Other pockets. are also in •***_ and nniqw ly make for the watoh aide of the waist- lowin« questions have been ooat, are ordered often for trousers by American university stndei. men who carry idlyer trinkets in them.' feasicwl persona, 151 being Another dam of special customer* 48 brin« women. The ' ve those whoss garments are T?**1 ?"* The Woaderfal Artlatle Poata Per- almost before I'd time to ondress I very bitter, and I didn't finish it, formed br Joanne Koetren. dead to the world. I woke in a fri More than 200. years ago a little girl was born at Amsterdam, Holland, whose name was Joanne Koetren. She was a peculiar child in that she cared nothing whatever for play and sport, bat found her greatest delight in making copies of things about her, imitating in wax every kind of fruit and making on silk, with colored floes, exact copies of paintings, which were thought wonderfuL Harding was a square built, gray haired man, with a strong, determined faoe, all brown and wrinkled by son and storm, and eyes tbat burned like live coals under shaggy white brows. dripping with sweat and shaking few days later the same lad had to reconduct the beast, bat unladen, to his own village. When they were abont half way on the road and at some distance from any habitation, the suddenly stopped,' looked deliberately round in every direction to assure itself that no one was in sight and, finding the road clear of passersby, made » step forward, seized the nnlncky boy's bead in its monstrous month, and, lifting him up in the air, flang fct™ down again on the earth with the upper part of his skull completely torn off. over. Now, in the lightboaae was a bottle of lime jnioe I'd brewed myself. My throat was as dry aa tbe lubricators of a oollier's engines, and the thoogbt of that drink tantalised me till I made shift to crawJ out of my hammock and stagger along the bridge to the little bouse where also was a 'chatty* of cold water. At odd times athwart the oonoen- with a view to. the wearer's health Many men hare am Inner band at ni flannel pot on the waist at their twm•ers as a core for rheuma tism, some driving ooats are made so that ■Tuwts of stoat paper may be slipped between the breast Hi»Cng and the oloth wheo driving against the wind. "On the whole." said the tailor, "a man in my boeineai has the best opportunity to find oat the and queer points about men, not only as to perrons, bat their minds."—New York Tribune questions: Question 1.—When you cannot recall k nam* yon want, does it seem to come *ok spontaneously without being frogjested by any perceived association of ideas? To this 11 per oent answered •No" and 81 per cent "Yes." Question I.—Does such recovery ever some during sleep? To this 17 per rant limwered "No" and 88 percent "Yes." 1. This morning I tried to recall the name of a character I had read of the night before in one of Scott's novels and failed I taught a class, and walking home in the afternoon all the names resotted to me without effort 8. I tried to recall the name of a book. Gave it up Half an hour later, while talking of something else, blurted it out without oonsciotiB volition. Qnsstiau 8.—On seeing a sight or hearing a sound for the first time, have foo ever felt that you had seen (or heard) the same before T Fifty-nine per oent answered "Yea" The action of unconscious memory luring sleep is illustrated by further trated beams that seemed to hit the far horizon would sail ships, glorified momentarily as they passed through, with every spar and sail and rope sharply outlined by the sudden brillianoe, bnt more often they slid along between light and water, ill defined phantasmal blobs of smudge, out of whiob, when the fancy took them to make their numbers, would spout forth many colored fires, all incomprehensible to the untutored •ye as the dim fa brio* they proceeded from. "To my utter astonishment, looking up, I saw that the light was out. Opening the door, I entered and, half choking, felt for the water bottle. It was empty. Striking a match, I aaw that the floor waa soaking wet. Putting op my band to the wicks, they only frizzed and spluttered at oontact with the flame; also the spare lantern that we always kept ready trimmed had diaappeared." And she had cause to, for Peter pegged out before we got him on board. Mine tnrned ont to be nothing much worse than a flesh woand, although I'd lost a lot of blood from it Brit after she had become very accomplished in music, spinning and embroidery, die abandoned all these for a still more extraordinary art—that of cutting. She executed landscapes, marine views, flowers, animals and portraits of people of such striking resemblance that she was for a time quite the wonder of Europe. Bhe used white papers for her cuttings, placing them over a black surface, so that the minute openings made by her scissors formed the "light and shade." "Having thus satisfied his revenge, the brute quietly resumed its pace toward the village, as though nnthing were the matter,' till some men, who had observed the whole, though unfortunately at too great a distance to be able to afford timely help, came up and killed it."—London Telegraph. "As you may guess, the skipper of the Badger was in a pelter when he'd heard my story. Certainly I had no witness, and the bag kept her mouth as close as a rat trap. Bat we got over that. There was a Malay interpreter on board, and be gave the oaptain a bint. So wben the bag beard that she was to be taken baok to Perak, her native place, and there banded over to the tender mercies of the soltan—at that tiue our very good friend—she made a clean breast of everything, including the attempt to poison me with the juice of the klang-klang berries. Four hundred guilders was the price of Peter's eon nivance and promotion to one of the Java lights if the plsn succeeded. "Peter and his old bag of a mother I soon discovered were confirmed opium smokers, and when they went in for a regular spree and began to suffer a recovery they made things hum in Monkey island,' as I called it. Onoe I was fool enough to interfere and stop Peter from choking the life out of her. For thanks, the pair turned on me, bat I managed to dress tbem down, although Peter nearly got his knife into me. And I can tell yon." laughed Harding, pausing in his story and rising to conjure again with the kettle and other adjuncts, "that two to one, aJth precious little room and a breakreck fall if yoa're not oareful, isn't as funny as it might be." But Harding and his assistant signalmen read off ships and numbers as easily apparently as if it was broad daylight, and the telegraph would repeat at intervals; "Large square rigged ship, with painted porta, steering E. by N. Made her number 28,745." Or it might be, "Steamer, black funnel with white band, brig rigged, deep, bound south, showed no numbar." "Stepping outside to the platform I stared around, headachy and very shaky still. - The Light was black as pitch— one of those nights yon often get out there, that feel almost like black velvet and as thick, and there wasn't a star to be seen, as sometimes happens at the change of the monsoons. The jungle, too, wss still as death—there was no sound on laud or on the sea. The whole world seemed fast bound in sleep and darkness. Presently my eye, roving along shots, came to the gleam ol a light some half mile away, about on a level with where ours should have been. FINERTY'S 8ERMON. The czar, Peter the Great, and others of high rank paid her honor. One "»■»» high in office vainly offered her 1,000 florins for three cuttings. The ompross of Germany paid her 4,000 florins for a trophy she had cut, bearing the arms of Emperor Leopold, crowned with eagles and surrounded by a garland of flowers. She also cut the emperor's portrait, which can now be seen in the Royal Art gallery in Vienna. A great many people went to see her, and she kept a book in which prinoes and princesses wrote their names. NOT THE ONLY ONE. It Bwackt PDi«« th« PNMh«( Wk» Dliat D*Uth It Before ax-Congressman John Finerty became famous as the great British lion tail twister he was one at the best reporters in He was on The Tribune, and one day a certain city editor (best known to fame as the man who always wore a straw hat and smoked a corncob pipe) decided that Mr. Finerty should be It was Saturday, and sometime after midnight Mr. Finerty was awrignntl to report the morning sermon of - ob score minister way down on t Side. Finerty was the senior, associates were thunderstruk, expected an explosion, at ' Finerty remained calm ant although a trifle pale. resign," they thought, walked out and made no surprise of every one, he next day as usual and turned stract of the sermon. Every on Monday morning, and „ I talnly an eloquent and careful^ | ed w u Km While coming down the Copper river last spring the narrator came upon a party of miners where one was dying from the effects of eating snow. He had been a hard drinker, but had run short of whisky. His thirst became unendurable and as water was scarce in midwinter he had taken to eating snow. Soon he claimed it relieved his appetite for the liquor, but his companions noticed that his appetite for the snow increased until he was consuming enormous quantities. Gradually his skin, which was a dark bronze, grew light, his rugged stature became bent, and even his harsh voice changed to the effeminate squeak of an old woman. His strength gave way, and his companions tried to break him of the habit. He would lie on his pallet and moan pitifully for a mouthful of snow and when opportunity offered would steal unobserved to the doorway and gulp down huge handfuls. At last, seeing death was inevitable, his companions allowed him the snow, hoping to prolong his life. It proved unavailing, however, and one morning the man was found dead. Spencer* In That LoealHr Wen sa Thick aa Blaekborrtoa. A half yearly meeting of directors who manage the Northampton private asylum had just broken up, and Lord Spencer, a member of that body, desiring to. reach Althorp Park somewhat more quickly than customarily, determined to return home by a route which intersects the grounds of the asylum and which is rarely used save as a summer parade for the unfortunate lunatics. Arrived at the gate which separates the asylum from the outer world. Lord Spencer, much to his annoyance and disgust, found it securely locked. A keeper, however, happening to come in sight just at that moment Lord Spencer lost no time in explaining to him the nature of his wishea This, you will see, was no isolated light atuok forlornly hundreds of miles from anywhere. It was an! establishment over whiob Harding presided— quite a little settlement of government offioes oonnected with the important department of harbors, rivers and trade. His salary was high. So was the efficiency of the service be headed. And he was not averse to a little judioious praise now and again. "This oonfession of the hag's wss s bit of luok for me, and Captsin Cardigan complimented me in presence of the ship's company on the way I'd behaved, having undoubtedly saved the Badger, whose officer of the watoh was steering by the false light when it suddenly disappeared. The oaptain also said that be would represent my conduct to tbe admiralty. And that he kept his word," said Harding as he rose to "go on deck" for a minute, "my presence here proves. If you'll refill the kettle, I'll be baok again in a.very short time." Question 4. —Do yon dream ? Ninetyfour per cant answered "Yee." After she died, which was when she had lived 68 years, her husband, Adrian Block, erected a monument to her memory and had designed upon it the portraits of these titled visitors. Her cuttings were so correct in effect and so tasteful as to give both dignity and value to her work and constitute her aa artist whose exquisite skill with the scissors has never before or since been equaled.—Lewiston Journal ' " Question 5. —G*n you wake at i - jIVT honr d0(ermlned before going to without waking up many timet . Fifty-nine par cent answered * J"1 rhirty-ooe per cent answered ta± "f11™; Question ft.—If yon can, hoT J"failure T Sixty-nine per cent but Finerty failed; 80 per cent often. egiLTowe Question 7.—Do yon come direci reported a» oblivion into consciousness ? Sixty in an ab- p«. cent answered "Yes" and 1 ana read it o«t "Gradually " ■' o*r- Examples: illyseport- L toglTe medicinr hours exactly to my wife d«i«lcut jooad sleeper, but for si] . —**dto up every two hours and reported giring the medicine. before. Mr. 1 I am always awaki The maan before the hour I set the to see Mr. 8. I had" tittle given Having replenished tbe glasses and refilled and lit bis pipe, Harding proceeded : j sleep xsforeT "Yea" "No." It waa a wild night, with a "southerly" blowing great gone, keeping tbe sea flattened into a vast milky white expanse of foam that kept np a long drawn, continuous roar at tbe foot of tbe cliffs in fitting accompaniment to tbe ahrieking blasts that wrestled and tore around tbe great tower as if striving to abake it from its foundations deep down in tbe solid rock. " Well, after this I oould see that tbe two had taken a down upon me, and as 1 on my part was heartily sick of the' whole oontract I told tbe offloer wbo commanded the Blitzen next time she called that I wanted to leave, and that the sooner be found a substitute the better I should be pleased. For answer he called me an English 'scbelm,' whiob means rascal, and told me that I had agreed for two years, whiob was a lie, and that there 1 should stay. Alao that he'd make it bis business to see that I didn't get away. about seldom The man surlily replied that his orders were to the effect that no one should pass through that gate exoept due notice were given to him to the contrary by the authorities, and that, being a married man with a wife and a large family, he failed to understand what special advantage was to be gained by transgressing the rules and thus placing his situation in jeopardy. Observing that the fellow was growing obdurate, Lord Spencer thought it bast to reveal his name and rank, imagining that a knowledge of the same would recall the man to his senses. Nothing of the sort happened, however. from ■ four 0 per "Aye," replied Harding as he reseated himself in reply to a remark of mine. "I was lucky, but you mustn't think thai I came here straightaway. This— the prize of the servioe among the lights —is my sixth. So, you see, to some extant I've worked my way up, helped, of oourse, by the little matter I've been telling yon and together with what in my young days was called a very fair education. Well, the oaptain of the Badger—he's a rear admiral now—was not the man to sit quietly down and let the Dutchman go soot free, bat not a stick of tbe Bliteen wss to be seen throughout the strait of Macassar. Still we kept on searching till at. last tbe skipper of a country wallah told us he'd seen her off Breton, an island round in the Bauda sea. Sure enough, one morning there we found ber at anchor off a native town. Now, lbs was both faster, carried more men, and was more heavily armed than we were, bat Captain Cardigsn had made up his mind that there was to be no international row over tbe matter. It had to be settled as privately as possible and strlotly between tbe two ships. THE LADY THE WINNER. every two D An»l«s Occurrence la aa OSIm BalMlae Elevator la Chleace. That afternoon a man of called on the city editor see the young pan who had hie sermon the morning *~ Finerty was introduced the clerical cut would like Finerty alone for a few momenta in the hallway he ached, "Of ooi yon were not at my church yeeta I am a very weeks I woke never missed "Come along to my room," said Harding at last after a good look around, "and we'll have a pipe and a glass of grog while I tell yon about another lighthouse I ran and another mano'-war that I watched some 25 years ago now." People who ride in "lifts" in this city acquire some qneer experiences at times. The calling of the floors where passengers desire to debark or embark not infrequently produces some amusing situations. It all depends upon the style of the person making the an- There are some spots on the Copper river where the snow, when melted and strained through a cloth, shows perceptible signs of minerals, and often gold is found plentifully intermixed, but of oourse not in paying quantities. Where this comes from is a mystery, but it may be brought from the far north by the heavy winter gales that sweep over this part of the country. It has been said that if the snow could be melted away it would leave deposits of millions of dollars in gold dust on the ground. "Seeing that eaoape, for that's what it really oame to, by water waa not to be thought of, exoept fay swimming, and the sharks pretty well put that out of tbe question, I determined to see what the land side was like. A mnddy banked river emptied itself just below the lighthouse, and this one day I started to follow np. But 1 didn't follow long. I don't believe I got a mile before 1 was mother naked and nearly bitten and stung to death. Every bnsh and shrub, nay, tbe very flowers, seemed to carry a thorn. And, what with fire ants, mosquitoes, leeches, oentipeda, stinging flies, and, worae than all, a olamed caterpillar that drops on to yon off the leave* and aticks hairs into yon that break off in your flesh and fester, I oan assure yon it was the roughest pionio I ever had. Why, I almost thought I oould bear tbe alligators chuckling as 1 made home again. Certainly Peter laughed for the first time since we'd been mates on Monkey island when he aaw tbe plight 1 waa in. five minute* Alarm. —-id had sleep for ten day* C*i went to bed at 9, asking to be sailed ait midnight I fell asleep at ' 1 ' ' ' clock I had Descending into bis private snuggery beside a bright fire, I took one of the big armchairs while Harding operated with hot water, case bottle, lemons and sugar and after fixing matters to bis satisfaction filled his pipe and said; nouncement. Of course conductors are mute participants in the game. Here is one happening of yesterday which is certainly out of the usual run. J onoe. 1 raw and dressed as thC (tuck IS, and ooold not believr , . not been called. thank yoa a strange pbanomenon has inorealo- light in the course of the inquiry the mystery of memory. It has ie*™otl ™ disoorered that by gadnc steadily laloon on eryatal consciousness is partly lost to the void thru produced those hare practloed crystal gazing find center unbidden forgotten | "No," replied Finerty. "Well. 1 simply stopped tc tar the sermon. It was for quent than the one I preached. Finerty had composed the r a neighboring cellar beer Saturday night.—Lippincott's dM morning t" "Peter laughed for the fi.rH time tince we'd been mate*." only much farther inland—a big light I saw it was, as my eyes got tbe sleep out of tbem—and burning steadily. The stolid features of the keeper simply relaxed into a broad grin, and as he turned to depart he gently explained that Lord Spencers in that particular locality were as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn time. Explanations and expostulations were useless, the discomfited earl being forced to return the way he had come.—Wit and Wisdom. Half a dosen passengers entered an elevator in a big down town office building. Doctors office there almost to the exclusion of other professions. One boy with a package asked to be deposited at the second floor. A woman stood mute while a medical man thought he would leave at the fifth. Theoonductor turned an inquiring head and the remaining passengers with one voice chiming in full chorus shouted: come to into been it a In- "Aye, ii most be about five and twenty years now since tbe day I sat on the steps of tbe sailors' borne iu Singapore stone broke. I'd been first mate of a •hip called tbe Star of Africa, that tbe ■kipper managed to ran slap on to a rook in tbe strait of Sunda. It wasn't my fault, nor did I low my ticket, like the oaptain. All tbe same, I fonnd it precious bard to get another ship. "Owners as well as masters have fads and prejudices in this respect—not perhaps as regards a first t ime. Bnt this happened to be my second wreck running. So my luck, you seti, was doad oat. Actually, only for baas Das I might have starred. Bananas and water fill up and satisfy right enough, ouly it takes you ail your time to keep tbe supply going. Presently, as I sat there, digesting my second or third breakfast, out oame the master intendant and said be: 'Harding, if yon stay here till the moon tarns bine, you'll never get it ship. But • billet's turned up that perhaps is better than nothing. The Dutc.li,' be went PPi 'have built a lighthouse somewhere down yonder on tbe Borneau coast and • second keeper is wages 80 guilders a month and rations. It's the merest fluke that I happened to hear of it Will yon take it?' The narrator had a close call himself from falling a victim to the snow habit "It was in the winter of 1896-7," he ■aid, "and I was new to the country. An old miner near Dawson had warned me against eating snow, bat I, with my partner, had gone back into the hills on a prospecting tour and had got canght in a blizzard We were shy of provisions and on oar way np lost the package containing oar cooking utensils. This we remedied by broiling oar oooked foods, bat we had nothing in which to melt the snow. It is claimed that melted snow is harmless, as the metallic deposits it contains sink to the bottom of tiie receptacle. "As I stared, ponied beyond expression, I all at onoe beard tbe sound of muffled snorting and churning faint in the distance—a noise as if a shoal of grampos were coming down the strait. who to rMtomvkr. there e*. „ ud at Um mm tim u- ud lost msmociss. To give a fev /oe of fog in photograph/ tfanoea: ▲ lady in crystal gating to tba fact that the black- bit of dark wall oovered with . " worn off the lens flowers. She was conscious she hen is a reflection which hare seen it somewhere, bat had i loss of brliiiaoay in Us recollection where. She walked over Constant nse and endlass ground she had just traversed the lens in tine wear the found the wall, which she had and this shoold be attend- annotloel all metal parts kepi wall ®»took cut her bankbook Where lenses are mounted in d*7- Shortly afterward she wet still more aare is neeessary at the crystal and saw nothing but as, wherever in soOh number oeta. She thought it wse . wears off, white light bMk number, bat taking up the fellow light is reflected into book, found to her surprise it was number of the aooount diaphragms of the iris At another time she destroyed t greatly at fault in this re- tar without noting the address, reason of its ooostruotkn the oould only remember the town, in this diaphragm are in' |Mta| at the crystal some timi while being set, and "881 Jefferson avenue." She polished and reflect! v* far dresssd the letter there, adding C some photographers avoid town, and found it was right iiapbragms in their len—% A hdy sat in a room to write w -«r their convenience. A »ha had sat eight years before, She of the apparata b«* feetmoving restlessly under the safety in this matter. Stops ble then remembered that ~ pattern beoome in time before she always had a ' «han bare metal, especially was this her feet were seeking. )f the aperture. Psychical research brings tr many cases of similar strange ' cieriM) JtkM. memory. It ia easy to find4 -• - —a - a. _» that . incidents insaw a white must no - the and passed One aerioob raapeoted source ia often doe to C 1 ing baa aligbtlj moon t and '' resulte in negative. cleaning of blacking off, ed to and blaoked. aluninion in tbia respect, oaaea tbe blackinf instead of tbe lens. "Listening and staring, there suddenly roae to mind fragments of tbe first talk I'd beard between Peter and tbe Dutchman about lights and bearing*: Then somehow oame a connection between that and tbe tailblock and tbe ooii of ratline stuff. Then, I don't know how it happened, bnt in a second —perhaps you're experienodH something of the kind—my brain seemed cleared of oobweba, as if a broom inside had •wept across it sharply, and the wbole plan lay before me plain as mod in a wineglass. The puff puff and wheezy panting was sounding nearer, and, looking steadily and bard into tbe distanoe, I could see a long way np tbe strait a shower of sparks like a swarm of fireflies, bnt which I knew marked the whereabouts of the Badger, horning Nagasaki ooal. Too Mneh of It. A high army officer whose fad was ventilation was one day tnuMwg an inspection of a frontier poet which waa mnch in need of repair. In aome places the roof showed the bine sky overhead and the walls were ornamented with gape. "Seven up," murmured a gentle voice u the car reached the indicated floor. "Tenth." "So, with the men at their quarters, guns ran oat and the old Badger stripped for flgbt, we ranged ap to the Dutchman in great style, with the bag in full view on the quarter deck, and ordered—aye, ordered—the Blitzeu'a captain to oome on board, and whether it; waa the aight of the hag or that they w ere unprepared I don't know, but, by gad. eir, be came, he and hia first lieutenant, and tbey were reoeived at the gingway as if they'd been prinoesof the blood. Two men seeking the tenth floor glanoed at each other with grins of appreciation as a stenographer, and a pretty one, by the way, entered the car. She seemed unconscious of having created more than paasing interest, but the conductor was alive to the situation. The brigadier general was escorted through the bailding by the colonel in charge, a sergeant going on before, as is the custom, to warn the men to stand at attention in honor of the general. another gazing the some bankthe"A day or ao after this the gonboat sent ber gig ashore again, and from tbe hammock I bad slang in my portion of tbe big but, 1 could hear much laughter among the Dutchmen as Peter detailed my adrenture. I heard also allosiona to some other rerdamde Englander and a long talk about tbe light and bearings, tbe gist of which for want of a more intimate knowledge of the language escaped me. Next morning I saw Peter marching off along tbe narrow strip of bank that separated bash from sea with a tailblock over bis shoulder, and, though wondering mightily what be could be up to, I wasn't going to show my curiosity. A tailblock, by tbe way, I ought to tell you, is the oommon block that yon reere a rope through, only to one end of it is attached a long tail at plaited stuff, nsnally, by whioh it can be made fast to a spar or bolt, alow or aloft Very little gare me food for thought in those days, and I pnaxled over this till Peter came back, and, rummaging among the stores, walked off onoe more with a coil of new ratline line and in tbe same direction. "We decided to try it 'raw,' and we did. Whether it was the food or the now I don't know, bat daring the week we waited for a chance to get out we had an ever increasing thirst, until, when we were finally able to strike the trail, we were consuming snow at a frightful rate- When we reached oar companions, we attempted to assuage our thirst with water, but it did no good. We had acquired a taste for the frosen water, and it seemed to have invigorating qualities. At night we could oot sleep unless we took our snow. As they proceeded the general asked: "And how is the ventilation, colonel?""The lady wins," he muttered to himself as he gave the lever a yank and the car shot upward again.—Chicago Chronicle. Sometlmtt pattern are apeot By Imtm or TDDetD onoatant frictioj thai beoome which xmaou hiTlsg irlf Before the colonel could reply the old sergeant, with a familiarity born at long service, said: She After she adtheOme on the Rector. "Than our skipper and the fink lieutunant and the Dutchman all went be- The little daughter of a local clergyman has reached the age where big words are apt to floor her and where she la very sensitive to the remarks at aa older brother. "Sure, general, and the ventilation ia bad, sorr, verra bad, sorr. The place is all full of holes, sorr."—Detroit Free Press. "She was approaching obliquely, orer from tbe Celebes aide, heading about west-southwest to piok up Mat Aria light; then, scoording to tbe sailing directions, she wonld straighten np west by south, keeping the light four points on ber starboard bow to clear tbe reef. Now, with the light in its present position, she would, if unsuspicious—and it was the merest chance that anybody on board observed tbe change—crash right on to tbe outermost edge of tbe reef and go down in deep water, as others had done before ber. It was a trap oooceived with perfectly diabolioal cunning and ingenuity, the site of the false light haring evidently been determined most carefully and aoientifloally, not too far to excite tbe lookout's distrust and yet near enough by half a point t6 prove effectual. Puff, puff, ohnrn, ohnrn, pant, pant Another 90 minutes, and it would be all up with H. M. S. Badger. But knowing exactly what to do—holding two honors and the ace, so to speak —I was as cool as a cnoamber, and, except for that trembling abont the legs, my own man again. That I had been drugged or poisoned by an insufficient dose I more than suspected. Just then, however, I didn't bother my head about that I wanted to renew the light on Mat Aris. Round the caboose in which tbe lantern used tcr hang, as I're told yon, for all the world like a leg of mutton in a meat safe, ran lookera filled with tins of kerosene, waste, rope, oakam and suoh matters. Knocking tbe beads of a ooaple of the tins in, Iponred the oil orer all liberally, saturating everything. After this, a match was all that was needed, and before I was half way slong tbe bridge the flames were six feet high. Just looking in her den to see that the hag wasn't there, I went down the ladders like a lamplighter and ran along tbe bank toward where I knew the false beacon mnst be twang bigh aloft in some tree. low. What passed there 1 don't know. Eat TOASftotlv Uipv name nn attain—the here felt ta- Not long ago she came running to her father. " 'Mandy," said Farmer Corntoeael, who had been reading the back jages of a magazine, "ef a cannon ball goin at the rate of 60 miles an hour was shot from the back of a train goin 60 miles an hour, where would the cannon ball light?" Hex Opinion. ouehl examination will inaore of the ordinary little bettor at tbe edge? " 'Wonld s duck swim?' D "We were fast approaching the degenerate stage when I reached a realizing sense of our condition and undertook to break off. I began by degrees and worked down, but up to the very moment I left the country the sight of the snow always raised in me an inordinate craving. It cost me many sleepless nights and weary days to restrain myself. Had I given way to the habit I would, like many another poor fellow, have lost all ambition and filled an unknown grave in that frozen wilderness.'' —Cleveland Plain Dealer. eight footstool " 'All right, theD; come along to Van Veldt & Co.*s office, they'll take yon on my recommendation.' The Dutch aganta did so without question. More, they paid me a month's wages in advance. and sent me in one of their fteatnera round to Batavia, vrbere I was to gat fresh orders. Arrived there, 1 Was kept waiting a moutL. But aa I had good qnarters and plenty to eat and drink I didn't mind a bit 8])ending my 'dead horse' in this way. One day, bowerer, I was told to get my belonging! on board a little foira and aft schooner which bad been loading stores fer tbe newly built lighthouse. "We were ten days on the passage, and when we brought np at our destination and I aaw what I'd come to I'd hare taken ten days on bananas and water to get away again. "From a thickly wooded point a reef ran nearly three-quarters of a mile out into the Macassar strait. At the extreme end of Mat Aris—as the point waaaalled—stood tbe lighthouse.* You'd have laughed! Imagine a sort of shed, ahaped like one of those oval topped meat safes, bnilt on a platform resting on piles 40 feet high. That waa all. From the ahed there ran it corduroy bridge with a hand rail, some BO feet baok shoreward, to another and a larger platform, where in * large hut we were o live. The only way to gef down to vwas by ladders! At low roil oonld see wer$ mud and Mgators, which used to come ver close to for salt water Everywhere, almoiit down to atood great trees 150; feet high, iose together, elbowing each speak, and, aa if that wasn't creepers, ferns aiiTT* under«11 descriptions filled np evohinb between them. On "Papa, papa, George called me names." light Ticks of "Why, what did Georgia say?*' "Oh," said the little girl, with a strong expression of disgust, "he said I practiced what I preached I I don't, do I?" |i8y*■* "Do you have matins In you church?" "No, we prater linoleum." Another olerk gave oat in ah arch, "Let aa dog to the praise and glory at God a hymn of my own oompoanre." A lady aaked the dean to read at her badaide "that beautiful leaaon than was summat about greavea in it" The dean read her I Samuel, rrlL "She liatened with arma outstretched and made no oomment untii I oama to the Terse, 'He had greavea at braaanpoo hia legs.' At thia aha raised bar hands in ecstasy and said, 'Ah, them grearea, them beautiful grea?eal' "Phaaea of My Life," fay Dean Pigoo. . __ _ instances hat ww to deepen the mystery. It is lot ao easy to {fire an explanation. The slererest men who have attempted to do ao hare had to admit defeat—Wash- Washington Post "I dunno exactly where 'twould light," she answered, "but I kin prophesy that it 'ud do a lot o' damage. It couldn't hit nowheres without hurtin a lot o' people that was standin around without anything better to do than ipeckle-ate on jes' sech doin's."—Washington Star. "Well, my child. I"— "But I don't, do I, papa? I don't any more than you do, do I?" And then the rector choked up.. But he took a half hour from his sermon and explained the meaning of the obnoxious expression to the best of his ability.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mo mm can travel in Belgium with- "He did not appear at dinner, and, aa 1 finished my mean of rice, salt fish and pickled mangoes, I a&d to the has, 'What haa became of Peter?' 'He'a gone to aet a trap for an orang ontang whoae traoka be aaw at the foot of the laddera yesterday,' ahe replied, grinning and leering. 'And,'added she sarcastioaily, 'if yon don't believe me go and look, only leave your olotbea behind, moat miabegotten of English fools.' out being struck by the extraordinary activity mm! prominence of the women. Over the doers at ahops of all descriptions the name of the owner or owners ia fcequwtly followed by "Scours" or "Veuve/' Yon find them proprietors of hotels and restaurants. They are often enstodiana at the ohnrohes. They are employed to tow the boats along the oanal banks. They oat up the meat ia the batchers' shops, and they are even lo be noticed shoeing horses at the forge. Javenlle Diplomacy. Dynamite explodes so rapidly that its force is exerted in the direction from which the greatest pressure comes. That is, if the dynamite be placed on the ground the explosive force is down; if it be hung against a wall its force attacks the wall; if it be hung under an object its force is upward. Dynamite. Mother—I gave each of you boys an orange. Charlie, you said you wouldn't eat yours until after dinner. And you, Jack, said the same. Have yon deceived me? CclaeldHM, "Somehow I'm awfully stupid to- Bight," remarked young Bo ram languidly the other evening. "Indeed you are," retorted Miaa Catting, somewhat impulsively. "Do you really mean that ?" asked the young man in surprise. "I merely indorsed your remarks. Didn't you just now assert that you were stupid?" she queried. "Yes," he responded, "but I only said so without thinking." "And up to the you spoke of it," she replied, "I only thought so without saying it"—Pearson's Weekly. Charlie—No, mother; we didn't eat our own oranges. I ate Jack's and he ate mine.—Sydney Town and Country Journal. The Ann river, in -Transcaucasia, haa shifted to Its ancient bed and now flows directly into the Caspian aea instead of into%he Kara at a point 60 miles from the latter'* month. "Peter came home that evening, and in the interest created by a new visitor in thoae waters and whoae acquaintance I at onoe sought aome means of making the incident of the tailblook was completely forgotten. lie fore you could tay 'Jack Robinson' #D«f Ui+h+d 4t thrrvunK " The curious fact that corn, potatoes and other plants thrive better when plaoed in rcws running north and south has been proved by Dr. Wollnyof Munich. This reduces the shading by each other to a minimum, more uniform and regular light, heat and moisture resulting.Inimical Plants. Datchman looking very sour. Then our gig was piped away, and the whole party got into her. I managed to slip in, too, end off we went to a little lump of an island 'pigeon shooting,' as I heard the first luff wbisper to the doctor. Two well known English plants, the bhistle and the rape, are so inimical thai if a field is infested with thistles, which come up year after year and ruin the crops, all you have to do is to sow it with rape. 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In Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in tno Insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on tho deck of the Oiympta with Dewey, and in tho roar of battle at the fall of Manila. Bonanza for agents. Brimful of original pictures an en by goTornn.eat photographers on the 'rot. Lane book. Ijov prioes. Bis profits. Freight W»DCmVtMvZManac* BttUdSg, Chicago. A proposal has been mad French chemist to obtain easily lable Iron tonios from . ing the plaati judiciously fertilisers. "Dutch soundings, it appeared, had been found ao unreliable aa to bring a few good Britiah veaaela to grief, and that government, obaracteriatioally enough, bad diapatched a veaael to correct them without giving the Dutch notice or aaying by yonr leave or anything else. "Well, the two skippers and their lieutenants put their hands in their pccketa and strolled away into the bosh. Presently our second lnff and the doctor, eaob carrying a hand bag, strolled alter tbem. Nobody else left the boat. In about ten minutes we heard a couple of phots, then two more. 'Sport's goodI' said one of the middies. But the master, who was in charge of the boat, never winked. The Mlniater's Mistake. I once asked a district nurse, says a writer in The Cornhill Magazine, how the various sick cases had been going on during my absence from the parish. At once the look which I knew so well crossed her face, but her natural professional pride strove for the mastery with the due unctuousness which she considered necessary for the occasion. At last she evolved the following strange miiture, "Middling well, sir; some of 'em's gone straight to glory, but I am glad to say others are nicely on the men&." Some 'Went to Glory. Th« Little Dinner Pal la morning gray, along the rtnti, 1 bar the trump at many feet And hear the frtosdly hail, "Good morning, Johnl" "Good This story is told of a prominent preacher: On a hot Sabbath as he was preaching he took from his pocket what he thought was his handkerchief, shook it out and wiped his face, intently talking all the time. To his surprise a broad smile was on every face in his audience, when he discovered what be had put in his pocket for a handkerchief that morning was a pair of his little child's drawers, the legs of which were quite visible as he wiped the perspiration from his face.—Homiletic Review. "There is positively the dumbest man I ever saw. Why, thst fellow doesn't know anything." Where Oar Laigiute ItuklM. (em flrni water all dosena of al down a t' NJbiag. the mi, rati, irawU ol *y rmxat\ hia im "And, although we, or rather I, waa unaware of it, H. M. S. Badger had for aome time been thua engaged at the upper portion of tbfc a trait. Now ahe appeared off Mat Aria bnay, in sporting parlance, wiping the Blitsen's eye, very muoh to the diagust of the latter'a offl cera, whoae apecialty, if th«y possessed (me, waa supposed to be anrveying. Bill)" Am on they trudge to atop or mill. With little dinner palL "And yet be is chief assistant in his wife's intelligence office."—Chicago News. With little dinner ptilt they go Through mod and rain, through A Mother's Reeenfesie. ■mr, Wearing in manly way- Wearing aa king wears kingly erow 11m toiler'* garb of bias or brown. For very kings are they "After awhile the party came strolling back again. But Von Helns, the Ditch captain, walked lame and had bis arm in a sling. And there was blood on the doctor's hands as he wssbed them in the sea; also as we pulled on board again I noticed from where I sat that our skipper bad a nest round hole through bis oooked hat, and that the gold Isoe on his right shoulder epaulet was badly damaged. As they were getting abotu-d their own boat I looked at the Dutch lieutenant—he was the same fellow wbo'd called me an English rascal at Mat Aris—and is the best of his lingo that I could manage, 'At least that's one Dntch lascal who'll think twioe before he sets traps for a British man-o'-war.' Oh, to have my little children back again Bear the bitter toll and ahed the man j tears For the smile* they brought like sonahlne after rain! Would 1 suffer all the pain of all the year*, "Tbe Badger mi a paddle wheeled, brig rigged old tub, rare enough. Bat she was British, and aa I * tared and stared through tbe glaaaea at the white ensign and tbe good red croas flying from her peak I wag tempted often to swim off to her as she puffed and churned away, fussing around after ber boats like an old hen after her obicks. "Over loga and atsmpa I atumbled, looking back now and again at the big, tall glare till, rounding a point, the dense foreat ahut it from aight. Getting along aomehow, I atopped at last and liatened. But 1 oould hear nothing of the Badger. Inland, however, high overhead hung the light, falling out my sheath knife, I made for It, hell for leather, through bush and brier. Aa I guessed, it was buug to a tree, and feeling all around, I soon found the rope belayed to a root, and before you oould say 'Jaok Robinson' I'd slashed it through and was watching the lantern toming down by tbe run, when a fellow jumped out of tbe dark and muzzled me round the throat. ' Hello, Peter I* I said as I returned the oompliment. 'You aee, the oofiee wasn't strong enough.' 1 hadn't tin* tony mooh, bein* w} hoar, for tbe brute, asite impenetrable face of woodland the efforta of the workmen and builders bad merely left a slight scriitoh—even by this time rapidly greening over. Nature heal* ber scars in that country almost as soon as rege*?ed. The light itself wan merely a big lantern carrying eight wicks, kerosene fed, and bnng to tbe roof of tbe meat safe. That it bad been badly wanted, primitive aa it was, tbe remains of several vessels emphatically witneosed. "My boss was there already, a cross bred, anrly lflbking customer—father Dotefa, mother Malay. She kept bonse for U—a skinny old bag, witb a nose like an eegle'a and a bigger mustache than 1 could boast of in those days. Who, brave of soul, with cheat hil ▲re faithful In the lowest plaee Nothing Special. Library Assistant (to visitor who is wandering about in a puzzled manner) —Can I help you t Are you looking for anything special f Starting Him Right. 4 Would I carry little burdens up to bed. After all the weary day to climb the stairs. Bending over, hear the griefs and halting prayers, Just to see each darling's sweetly resting head! That duty nlla them to; Who for the home, the weana, the Grow gray with oar* and stern ' Keeping their heartbeata true. -Mrs. P. A. Croiler "Ah!" sighed the sentimental youth. "Would that I might install a sentiment in your loyal heart"— Visitor (absently)—Not thank yon. I was only looking for my wife. —Library Journal. "Sir," interrupted the practical maid "I'd have you understand that my heart is no installment concern."— Chief go News. Would 1 see uiy dally table, riohly stored With the fruits of toil and oft recurring oost. All to vanish like the flowers before the troet For the sight of their dear faces roaad the board I OH A««. Am u« mm that grow lovaly M old. . . And age throw* • halo around th*m. Am the traea pat upon thwu tbalr robaa of (oM Whan tell with lta glory haa crowned them. —George Blrdseye In Boaton Traveler. "Bntwben I looked at the blaok, three tided flua sticking up at high water right alongaide our pilea I felt my toes tingle, and thought better of it, touting that some daj she'd send a boat to give us a call, when I determined that go I would if all the Dutch in the Eaat Indies were to try to atop me. "That Peter guesaed my thoughts and notions I eonld aaa from tha mean, yal- The Bee* of Would I bear perplexing doubts and a inlaws tears Lest I might not guide their wayward steps aright (These the hardest hoars to win of all the fight) For the sweetest of my hopes for future years I "And yoq say you gave me no anlouragementt""That is what I said." ' 'No encouragement t Why even your father thought it all settled." • 'Eid our friend retire from politics ?'* Distinctions. "Well," answered the practical worker, "it wasn't what you'd call a retire.' It was a knockout"—Washing- Washington Star. Saab Ufa of man la bat a paf* b God's |mt diary, each age A separate volume and each raoa A chapter. For a little apace V* write, and. childlike, cry oar power*, Sor deem hla hand la (aiding ours. -Pw* Wheeler to Nrw York fw, "His hand went to his sword like s flash, but our second luff, who understood, tapped bim on the shoulder and pointed to the boat, tad with a scowl : ha got la. "My father T What proof have you of four extraordinary statement T" The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, wind I—Ha*, What is home without the children there to bless? All are scattered, some a continent apart; Vacant beds and lonely table—oh, my heart "Proof? The best of proof. He borjowa Bona; trow aw "—Cleveland f!ai» Deatar. throbs wlth«aln that aaver knows i eft sul T7»tekft«tafc&]*2«HltWUlta»8t